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Berkeley Protesters Bare All For Trees
Daily Caller ^ | 7-20-2015 | BLAKE NEFF

Posted on 07/20/2015 6:12:06 PM PDT by Citizen Zed

Activists at the University of California at Berkeley got naked on Saturday to show their love for nearby trees that authorities are planning to cut own.

About 50 people showed up at a grove of eucalyptus trees on the campus of UC-Berkeley, stripped off their clothes, and began to intimately interact with the trees in the grove for the benefit of photographer Jack Gescheidt.

The nudity was organized by Gescheidt as part of his Tree Spirit Project, an effort to create fine art photographs by, well, taking pictures of naked people while they cavort about in nature. The project’s website describes it as an attempt to “raise awareness of the critical role trees play in our lives, both globally and pesonally [sic].”

The Berkeley photoshoot was held in order to protest a plan by authorities in Oakland, UC-Berkeley, and the East Bay Regional Park District to cut down thousands of trees in the area. The plan, which has FEMA approval and could start by the end of August, is allegedly needed for both fire prevention and to check the spread of the invasive eucalyptus tree. Wildfires are no petty concern for the area. In 1991, a firestorm tore through Oakland and Berkeley, torching over 1,500 acres of land along with 2,800 homes. 25 people were killed.

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First there were tree huggers.

Then there were rape trees.

And now there are tree rapers...


1 posted on 07/20/2015 6:12:06 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed

what has been seen...


2 posted on 07/20/2015 6:14:11 PM PDT by jennings2004 ("What difference, at this point, does it make!"!)
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To: Citizen Zed

HEY!!! No barf alert. I’m ready to eat my low fiber diet for a Colonoscopy that I will be having in 3 days. Good Lord Cellulite, do these people think they have hot bodies to be going naked. sigh


3 posted on 07/20/2015 6:14:29 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Citizen Zed

Tree Spirits? Im thinking it was more along the lines of Corn mash.


4 posted on 07/20/2015 6:15:16 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Citizen Zed

*dry heave*


5 posted on 07/20/2015 6:15:52 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Perpetually adolescent idiots.


6 posted on 07/20/2015 6:16:13 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: jennings2004

Those people should be arrested for sexually assaulting a tree!


7 posted on 07/20/2015 6:17:27 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Tree Huggers Mourning Loss of a Tree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElJFYwRtrH4


8 posted on 07/20/2015 6:17:45 PM PDT by dfwgator
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How come it seems like the only people that get naked in public are people that nobody really wants to see naked?

How come Hooter's girls can't get naked for a cause?

9 posted on 07/20/2015 6:19:27 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: Citizen Zed

Good golly!

Getting the Supremes to allow them to marry the same sex isn’t enough for them; now they want to make love to trees?


10 posted on 07/20/2015 6:19:54 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: jennings2004
Presented as a Public Service
Certain FReepers may need this


Click the Pic


11 posted on 07/20/2015 6:20:28 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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Hopefully, that tree has a large growth of poison Sumac on it.

itch it, tree huggers !


12 posted on 07/20/2015 6:20:40 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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13 posted on 07/20/2015 6:20:59 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Fiddlstix

LOL!


14 posted on 07/20/2015 6:21:33 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Col Frank Slade

If that tree didn’t have fungus before, it does now.


15 posted on 07/20/2015 6:22:24 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Citizen Zed
Transplantuals.

Freaks. And undoubtedly jobless.

16 posted on 07/20/2015 6:22:48 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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Intimately interact with the trees while naked?
This mental image is just too much.
Bet you can’t even be arrested in Berkley for this behavior either.


17 posted on 07/20/2015 6:25:25 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Did that REALLY have to be posted? A bunch of fat, middle age hippies posing naked on trees? Give me a break!


18 posted on 07/20/2015 6:26:02 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind, but now I see...)
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I heard one guy look over at the trees and said in amazement “where the hell did all of those f_c_king trees come from!”


19 posted on 07/20/2015 6:30:32 PM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: Citizen Zed

I have a honey locust tree in my front yard I would love to watch them try that on.


20 posted on 07/20/2015 6:35:26 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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